Machrie Moor
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Machrie Moor is a prehistoric archaeological landscape on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, renowned for its dramatic Bronze Age stone circles set against a moorland backdrop.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Machrie Moor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5456783 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Machrie Moor Context triple: [Machrie Moor stone circles, location, Machrie Moor]
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A.
Rannoch Moor
Rannoch Moor is a vast, boggy expanse of wilderness in the Scottish Highlands, renowned for its remote, rugged beauty and extensive peat bogs, lochs, and moorland.
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B.
Menmuir
Menmuir is a small rural village in eastern Scotland, known for its agricultural landscape and historic parish setting within the Angus region.
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C.
Ettrick Hills
Ettrick Hills are a range of rolling, often remote hills in the Scottish Borders, forming part of the broader Southern Uplands landscape.
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D.
Dunnottar Woods
Dunnottar Woods is a scenic woodland area near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, known for its walking trails, wildlife, and historic surroundings.
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E.
Kinnoull Hill
Kinnoull Hill is a prominent wooded hill and scenic viewpoint overlooking the River Tay, known for its dramatic cliffs and panoramic views near Perth, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Machrie Moor Target entity description: Machrie Moor is a prehistoric archaeological landscape on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, renowned for its dramatic Bronze Age stone circles set against a moorland backdrop.
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A.
Rannoch Moor
Rannoch Moor is a vast, boggy expanse of wilderness in the Scottish Highlands, renowned for its remote, rugged beauty and extensive peat bogs, lochs, and moorland.
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B.
Menmuir
Menmuir is a small rural village in eastern Scotland, known for its agricultural landscape and historic parish setting within the Angus region.
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C.
Ettrick Hills
Ettrick Hills are a range of rolling, often remote hills in the Scottish Borders, forming part of the broader Southern Uplands landscape.
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D.
Dunnottar Woods
Dunnottar Woods is a scenic woodland area near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, known for its walking trails, wildlife, and historic surroundings.
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E.
Kinnoull Hill
Kinnoull Hill is a prominent wooded hill and scenic viewpoint overlooking the River Tay, known for its dramatic cliffs and panoramic views near Perth, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
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prehistoric archaeological landscape ⓘ scheduled monument ⓘ |
| accessibleTo | the public ⓘ |
| accessRoute | footpath from Machrie Bay road ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| distanceFromCoast | approximately 1.5 kilometres ⓘ |
| earliestActivityDate | 4th millennium BC ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceOf |
burial practices
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prehistoric agriculture ⓘ ritual activity ⓘ |
| hasHighestStoneHeight | approximately 5.5 metres ⓘ |
| hasMainFeature |
Bronze Age stone circles
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cairns ⓘ field systems ⓘ hut circles ⓘ prehistoric burial monuments ⓘ standing stones ⓘ stone alignments ⓘ |
| hasViewOf | Kintyre Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landscapeType | moorland ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Firth of Clyde
NERFINISHED
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Isle of Arran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | North Ayrshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | western side of Isle of Arran ⓘ |
| mainConstructionDate |
2nd millennium BC
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3rd millennium BC ⓘ |
| managedBy | Historic Environment Scotland ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
granite
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local boulders ⓘ red sandstone ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement | Machrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStructure |
Machrie Moor 1 stone circle
NERFINISHED
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Machrie Moor 2 stone circle NERFINISHED ⓘ Machrie Moor 3 stone circle NERFINISHED ⓘ Machrie Moor 4 stone circle NERFINISHED ⓘ Machrie Moor 5 stone circle NERFINISHED ⓘ Machrie Moor 6 stone circle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlooks | Machrie Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Machrie Moor Stone Circles complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period |
Bronze Age
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Neolithic ⓘ |
| protectedStatus | Scheduled Ancient Monument ⓘ |
| region | Islands of Scotland ⓘ |
| researchField |
archaeology
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prehistoric studies ⓘ |
| tourismType |
cultural tourism
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heritage tourism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Machrie Moor Description of subject: Machrie Moor is a prehistoric archaeological landscape on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, renowned for its dramatic Bronze Age stone circles set against a moorland backdrop.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.